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"Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them."

website for sharing videos

"Broadcast, watch, share and discuss live events"

Broadcast, watch, share and discuss live events

[ http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/comics.cfm ]Wrap it in the Comics Looking for a great year-end wrap up? Why not have students or the whole class create a comic-style summary of major concepts or personal learning favorites from the year? Find terrific tools and comic starters in [ http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/comics.cfm ]TeachersFirst's Comics Resources. Even primary grades can help create a comic as a whole class activity. Share the results on your school web page or as summer take-home links or printouts.

The goal of Signed Stories is to increase the literacy of deaf children; however, it is a great resource for all children. After choosing a story, you will see the text, hear the story and see it in sign language. Almost 100 titles are available and can be searched by topic or by browsing all titles. Some stories offer more options than others. Many stories have pause and rewind buttons, so you can replay to see signs again. 10902 In the Classroom:  Use stories on the interactive whiteboard or projector to teach story elements - pause as the story is read to allow students to retell details to the stopping point then make predictions of what will happen next. Help students understand disabilities and adaptations to disabilities through watching the stories being told in sign language. This is also a great resource for students with deaf/hearing impaired parents or students/teachers trying to learn or practice sign language. In sign language classes, consider creating your own signed story videos for children's books and share them on a tool such as TeacherTube [ http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=9419 ]reviewed here.

Example of differentiated instruction plan for a 5th grade class. Notice the Menu theme. Students must choose an appetizer, entree and dessert. Shared by Chris L. Atkinson, a google certified teacher at ISTE.

I share with grade 5 when we do the glass mosaic project

safe site to share files with students

I thought this was interesting and timely.

Thanks, Laura. Very interesting as you say. I really hadn't thought about this aspect of social media and sharing. The speed of new technology opportunities requires us to pause and consider consequences, which all too often we don't do.

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Online book manager virtual bookshelf account for teachers (student must be 13) Teacher can create a classroom account. Give a class login. There can be 20 logins on one account at the same time. At the end of the year add books to read for the summer. Put it as a page as a classroom blog students can write a review but doesn't have their names.

Interesting Article on Creativity shared by Kay Z. Some of you have heard me talking about this article from Newsweek, July 19. I think it is critical to what we do, and I think that it should certainly be used as we focus on DI and UbD, as well as when we look at the curricula across our divisions, and when we look at what we say/do in Admissions and Development.

Sample writing examples across grade levels with scoring; great pieces to share as models with kids!

Stephanie S. You might enjoy looking at this site.

writing web site

We have new flip cameras for next year. Think about sharing videos with parents.

Create your own study guides and share them on the web.